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The man taken with his foot on the desk in Pelosi’s office is arrested
Law enforcement officials announced Friday that they had arrested the man pictured in a viral photo in the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with one leg on her desk when pro-Trump rioters entered the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. stormed it. Officials said they arrested 60-year-old Richard Barnett in Little Rock, Ark., And also released details of crimes for which several people will face federal charges. Barnett, who among other things is facing charges of violent trespassing and theft of public property. things, told KFSM that he was looking for a bathroom when he saw that the door to Pelosi’s office was open. ‘I sat here in my desk. I’m a taxpayer. I’m a patriot. This is not her desk. “We lent her the desk,” he told KFSM. “And she does not appreciate the desk, so I thought I would sit down and appreciate the desk.” Barnett is being held, according to NBC News, in Washington’s detention center in Fayetteville, Ark, awaiting his initial appearance. A New York Times reporter on Wednesday shared a video of Barnett that he said was taken after the Arkansan time in the speaker’s office, showing how he brags about taking a personalized envelope from the office, which according to he was not stolen. > Here is Mr. Barnett, who passes by “Bigo” and tells the story in his own words pic.twitter.com/oSyKiCDXgy >> – Matthew Rosenberg (@AllMattNYT) January 6, 2021 “I left a quarter on her desk,” he said and later added that he also “left a nasty note.” I’ll probably tell them this is what happened up to the DC jail, ” he adds. Barnett said he was politely at the door to the office but was then pushed inside by other rioters. Pelosi’s assistants said her office was vandalized on Wednesday and that a laptop was stolen from a conference room even though the equipment was used for presentations only, officials had earlier announced that 82 people had been arrested at state, local and federal level. While the FBI’s Washington Field Office released 40 photos of people wanted in connection with the Capitol riot on Friday, a West Virginia state lawmaker was also charged in connection with the Capitol riot on Friday. Derrick Evans, a Republican, recorded a video and then deleted a video of him from the crowd, which led to a petition asking him to retire, while 70-year-old Lonnie Coffman of Falkville, Ala, accused of having two handguns. According to NBC News, police were able to connect Coffman with a suspicious red GMC pickup to Alabama plates, according to an assault rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails containing gasoline that was apparently homemade Napalm. and is accused of knowingly entering restricted land and assaulting an officer after entering the Capitol. According to court documents, Leffingwell repeatedly hit a U.S. police officer in the helmet and on the chest. Christopher Michael Alberts of Maryland is accused of entering the Capitol illegally while in possession of a loaded Taurus 9mm pistol and a separate magazine filled with ammunition. Alberts, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, is also accused of having a pocket knife at the time. He “immediately tried to flee” before police arrested him, according to court documents. He told police he had the gun “for personal protection and he did not intend to use the firearm to injure anyone.”